ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,337, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CGG SERVICES SAS (Massy Cedex, France).

"Domain decomposition for high-frequency elastic full waveform inversion method and system" was invented by Kawin Nimsaila (Katy, Texas), Gang Liu (Katy, Texas), Zedong Wu (Katy, Texas), Zhigang Zhang (Houston) and Ping Wang (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for imaging a formation of a subsurface includes receiving input data d related to the subsurface, generating synthetic data u related to the subsurface, by applying an implicit finite-difference approach to a reflectivity model r, updating a velocity model V based on the input ...